Town of Carrboro, NC

🎪Halloween Carnival
Friday, 10/31, 5:30-8pm at Carrboro Town Commons
Carnival style activities and wickedly good prize bags. No registration required.
🎃Virtual Pumpkin Carving/Decorating Contest
Submit a photo of your carved/decorated pumpkin by 5pm, Tuesday, 10/28.
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All your local gov news in one place!
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🍂Fallen leaves are more than just seasonal color — they are shelter.

🍁Leaving your leaves is one of the easiest ways to help insects and soil health in your yard.

🍂Pledge to Leave Your Leaves, and you can pick up one of these yard signs, while supplies last.

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Please don’t pile leaves in traffic lanes, bike lanes, or on sidewalks. They can create serious safety hazards for everyone. 🍂🚴‍♀️

Check your collection schedule for yard waste and leaves, so that piles do not stay at the curb long. 🍂 🗓️

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Take the Safe Routes to School survey before Friday, Oct. 31 to help the Town of Carrboro Planning Department update its Safe Routes to School Strategic Action Plan ( https://monkeylink.co/f537fd )
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🌟Music and Stories Under the Stars: Join us on Friday, Oct. 24, 5- :30pm for an evening of music and stories at Weaver Street Lawn. Put on your best costume for the annual costume contest, bring a blanket or a low chair, and snuggle up for the
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Frances Shetley will read from her new book, "Vignettes," a collection of true stories from her life, starting on her father's farm in Calvander and continuing through her years living in and around Carrboro.
🗓️10/24
🕚11:30am - 12:30pm
📍Drakeford Library Complex
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🗓️The Town Council is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21.

The Town Council meets at Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W. Main St. Members of the public are welcome to attend in person or can view the livestream via our website or YouTube.

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To all those celebrating, Happy Diwali! May your Diwali be free from darkness and abundant with light.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Carrboro: Preventing domestic violence requires the collective awareness, care & action of individuals, institutions, and systems to transform our communities.
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Walk, dance, bike, and scoot your way through the 2025 Carrboro-Chapel Hill Community Holiday Parade on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.!
We’re looking for local organizations with diverse cultural, faith, and community traditions to participate.
Apply online ➡️ https://monkeylink.co/a68206

The 20th Annual West End Poetry Festival is underway through Saturday. All events are free and open to the public. The theme this year is "The Power of Poetry."

Enjoy readings, open mics, poetry in the round, workshops and more!

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Carrboro This Week:
🎉West End Poetry Festival opens on Thursday at Steel String Brewery and runs through Saturday. All poets and people curious about poetry are welcome. Listen to poetry, share poetry, & celebrate poetry.
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Due to unexpected equipment failures, residential household waste collection may be delayed until Friday, Oct. 17 or Monday, Oct. 20, depending on the progress of repairs. Public Works crews are working hard to safely and efficiently complete waste collection as repairs progress.

The 20th Annual West End Poetry Festival returns, Oct. 16-18, 2025. All events are free and open to the public. The theme this year is "The Power of Poetry."

Enjoy readings, open mics, poetry in the round, workshops and more!

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🗓️The Town Council is scheduled to meet for a work session at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14.

The Town Council meets at Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W. Main St. Members of the public are welcome to attend in person or can view the livestream via our website or YouTube.

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Thanks to Gina Van Hook of Willow Creek Laundromat for having the Carrboro in Motion team set up outside her business to meet residents on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025.

The Town of Carrboro hosts Carrboro In Motion events to increase neighbor-to-neighbor participation and engagement with the community.

Carrboro This Week:
☂️A little rain felt just fine as the Carrboro Cubs Walked & Rolled to School
🎨Friday is 2nd Friday Artwalk
✳️Carrboro in Motion: Willow Creek Laundromat on Saturday
🚲The Kidical Mass Bike Event is Sunday
🎉That's Carrboro -- Always in Motion!
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🎉Join us at the next Carrboro in Motion event:
11am - 2pm Saturday, Oct. 11 at Willow Creek Laundromat at 602 Jones Ferry Road.
Enjoy:
💃Live Zumba class led by Oscar Garcia
🚲Bike and ped resources
✳️Town of Carrboro programs & services
✴️Orange County services

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2025 Carrboro Halloween:
🌟Music & Stories Under the Stars: Friday, Oct. 24, 5-7:30pm Weaver Street Lawn
🎪Carrboro Halloween Carnival: Friday, Oct. 31 ,5:30-8pm Carrboro Town Commons
🎃Virtual Pumpkin Carving/Decorating Contest: Submit a photo 5 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 28
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The 20th Annual West End Poetry Festival returns, Oct. 16-18, 2025. All events are free and open to the public. The theme this year is "The Power of Poetry."

Enjoy readings, open mics, poetry in the round, workshops and more!

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Join the 2nd Friday Art Walk around downtown Carrboro and Chapel Hill on Friday, Oct. 10.

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🗓️The Town Council is scheduled to meet next at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7.

The Town Council meets at Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W. Main St. Members of the public are welcome to attend in person or can view the livestream via our website or YouTube.
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Celebrate Walk & Roll to School Day: Oct 8
Want to walk, ride & roll to school w/Mayor Foushee?
Meet at bike repair stand at Wilson Park between 7-7:15am
Group photo before walk begins: 7:20am
Group should arrive at Carrboro Elementary by 7:35 am

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Carrboro 10K and 5K road races are scheduled for 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 4.

The race begins in front of McDougle Middle School, winds through downtown Carrboro and its neighborhoods, and finishes on the McDougle track. Feel free to cheer on the runners!

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The Carrboro Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating Kent Kurosawa, a missing endangered person.

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The Town of Carrboro seeks applications for the position of Poet Laureate of Carrboro, a two-year term that will begin Jan. 1, 2026, and expire Dec. 31, 2027.

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Carrboro This Week:
🎵Thanks Carrboro Recreation, Parks and Cultural Resources for a GREAT Carrboro Music Festival
🎉Carrboro's All-America City Celebration
📚West End Poetry Festival is Oct 16-18
🎃Halloween Events
🗳️Early voting coming up for local elections!
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Wishing our Jewish community a meaningful Yom Kippur. G'mar Chatima Tova.
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#YomKippur #CarrboroNC #JewishHolidays

🆓Get Free Milkweed Seeds: Carrboro Farmers’ Market: Saturday, 10/4
🦋Monarchs rely on milkweed as a food source for their larvae & eating it makes them poisonous to predators
👩‍🌾How to Plant: Sprinkle the seeds, cover lightly, water
🌻Choose native varieties
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